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Polysemy and thought: Toward a generative theory of conceptsMind and Language 36 (1): 158-185. 2021.Most theories of concepts take concepts to be structured bodies of information used in categorization and inference. This paper argues for a version of atomism, on which concepts are unstructured symbols. However, traditional Fodorian atomism is falsified by polysemy and fails to provide an account of how concepts figure in cognition. This paper argues that concepts are generative pointers, that is, unstructured symbols that point to memory locations where cognitively useful bodies of informatio…Read more
University of Oxford
DPhil, 2019
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Aesthetics |
Philosophy of Language |
Areas of Interest
Experimental Philosophy |
Metaphysics |